ICAEW

ICAEW is a world leading professional membership organisation that promotes, develops and supports more than 147,500 members worldwide. We provide our members with knowledge and guidance, and ensure ICAEW Chartered Accountants are meeting the highest ethical and technical standards. As financial experts we act in the public interest offering insights into business and the economy that help to shape government policy and regulation.

ICAEW and the Sustainable Development Goals

The public space in which Sustainability at ICAEW is operating in is one where people are trying to answer the big question: ‘How do we build prosperous societies that are socially and economically just and yet live within our ecological limits?’

UKSSD friend Carolina Karlstrom has set up a thriving Meetup group called the SDGs Network. Their next meeting looks to explore sustainable spaces with speakers from The Edible Bus Stop and Meanwhile Space.

We were overwhelmed by our partners response to our request for new representation on our steering group and are pleased to announce the appointment of six new members. Between them they bring a mix of skills and expertise to strengthen the capacity of our existing group.

In the first week of June we joined our partners Impact International for their annual event, Learnfest. Emily Auckland reflects on what she learnt at this one-of-a-kind event on the shores of Lake Windermere.

The UK is so unequal that the richest 1,000 people have amassed as much wealth as the poorest 40 per cent of the population put together. In this blog Lucy Shaddock from The Equality Trust explores the inclusion of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals and the Governments response.

There is much to be welcomed in the government’s first attempt at outlining a UK response to the Sustainable Development Goals at home and abroad. Dr Graham Long explores what’s good, and what’s missing, on behalf of UKSSD.